Global Education Office (GEO) Scholarship Application

This application is for current students who are planning to study abroad in Summer 2026 or Spring Embedded 2026. The committee considers not only financial need (both FAFSA-demonstrated and need that might be missed by the FAFSA), but also the quality of your motivation and the educational fit of the study abroad program.

• Graduate students can apply, however only if going on a study abroad program for credit
• International students (who are already Virginia Tech students!) can apply to this scholarship. Note: this scholarship is NOT for international students who are trying to get accepted into Virginia Tech).
• You can apply even if you’re not yet sure about your study abroad plans.
• You can only receive one award per program. While students going on embedded programs can apply during 2 different application cycles, they can only get one award. So if you’ve received a scholarship during the first cycle, do not apply for the second cycle.
• Students are eligible to receive a maximum of two GEO scholarships during their four-year undergraduate academic program.

Eligibility requirements:

• GPA 2.5 or above
• Enrollment in credit bearing programs
• Enrollment in a program where tuition is paid to VT (Third Party and Direct Enroll programs are not eligible)
• Summer term 3 VT credits minimum

Finalists
If you’re a finalist, we might ask you to come in for an interview.

IMPORTANT: DO NOT wait until the last moment to submit your application! Scholarship Central locks down at midnight and we can’t manually override the system!
In order for us to be able to score your application, all the materials need to be in the system (we cannot score emailed applications/videos). And we can’t upload anything for you as we don’t have those editing permissions. So, any scholarships not submitted by midnight cannot be reviewed – NO EXCEPTIONS!
It is therefore especially important that you check the size of your video submission. If your video exceeds the size, you won’t be able to upload it. You will probably need to ‘compress’ your video for which there are many (free) online programs. By converting it to another size, you should be able to upload it.